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Re: DawI' - ghetwI'

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Mon Jan 7 18:18:44 2008

Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:16:11 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <6.2.1.2.2.20080107111210.02aa0eb0@imap.uchicago.edu>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org

Steven Boozer wrote:
> Aside from the fact that the KLI has used {DawI'} in _The Klingon Hamlet_, 
> either would seem to work just as well... at least until Maltz shares his 
> opinion.  Besides, we have several words for it in English:  actor/actress, 
> performer, player, thespian, etc.

{ghetwI'}, of course, had not yet been revealed to us when Hamlet was 
restored by the KLI, so its use of {DawI'} over {ghetwI'} can hardly be 
held up as a KLI preference...

SuStel
Stardate 8019.0

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